#failed

When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that's a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous. ↗

— Norm MacDonald

#bother #cancer #courageous #defeated #did

And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again. ↗

— George Takei

#achievements #again #also #certainly #country

The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand. ↗

— George Edward Moore

#failed #lot #remembered #understand

When I turned 15, I left school having failed to make the minimum grade. With little direction I enlisted at the local culinary school. Here the academic demands were less rigorous. ↗

— Rene Redzepi

#culinary #culinary school #demands #direction #enlisted

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#both #bring #does #failed #hard

Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon. ↗

— Ron Paul

#anything #anytime #away #benefit #cliches

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#attracted #because #been #changes #completely

Love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forever more it will go on undefeated. I'm also a very loving person. ↗

— R. Kelly

#battle #every #failed #forever #go

At times we expected the allies unquestioningly to follow our leads; sometimes we failed to consult them in advance before reversing policies; at other times we ignored their requests. ↗

— Richard Kerry

#allies #before #consult #expected #failed

I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#choice #dark #failed #gambled #i